[lbo-talk] eminent domain

Wendy Lyon wendy.lyon at gmail.com
Sun Mar 5 13:54:13 PST 2006


On 3/5/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Yup. Russia/the former USSR has a hopping pop/rock
> music scene nobody outside the Russosphere has ever
> heard of, except for tatu -- and that's only because
> Tatu did some songs in English. Ukrainian rock is a
> whole genre. I think I played you some 80s Soviet punk
> (Grazhdanskaya Oborona) when you were here.

Yes. And it was my visit to Russia that I had in mind when I wrote that bit about the smaller cities not having High Street shops. Godforsaken places like Samara and Togliatti - populations of a million and half a million respectively, but globalisation seems to have passed them by entirely.



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